The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-10-05


farm proltably, and therefore desert iht
old homcstcads to find an easier way tc
make q living?
If agriculture is our principal business
why not educate farmers? Why not de-
vote all the money We can spare to train
ing farmers and muchanicS-th first tC
develop our agriculture, the others &c
establish manufactures among us and
give our farmers home market? Will
INC supply OF lawyers, preachers and
doctors run out? Not bit Of DANGER
Wotlord, Furman, Erskiuc, Harvard,
Yale, Princeton, thousand classical and
literary institutions ut home and abroad
viii keep up the supply.
but, says some adhGrcnt of DR. Thorn
well, they will not be Homogeneous. u
public men thus trained will not be
united, they will not think aiiko, &c, &c.
here would be no nucleus for a "ring. y
| grant you; and there would be healthy
current Of new thought and diverse Opt
mons brought back which might in time
evolve some statesman who can show us
II way TO rebuild our shattered fortunes.
without depending on "NOrthorn capital
and brains" alone. The only Carolnjan
who has n worldwide fame got his cdu,
cation outside the State, and it is caay to
believe that i moro Of our public men
had been thus educated there would be
less OF provincialisms, staGnation and
sclf-ldolatry among us. The South Car
DINA College has produced somC great
meD, but 1t is sad to see many of its
alumni and faculty opposing progress
and fighting the battle of Bourbonsn.
The Kew. John Jasper swcars the "Eun
DO move" Some men in high places in
South Carolina are ready to say to the
Nineteenth century, "Stop, stand still"
But have got switched OIL from "D. !"
and his arguments, and | will try to got
back | will only say that tho South
Carolina College has descended from the
nigh place upon which DR.. Thornwcll
sought to anchor 1T, and mixing mcchau-
zeal and manual labor in ever so small a
degree with IFS purely mental training is
dragging its mantloin the dust for money,
and trying 10 accomplish the chemical
'mposSlblhty OF mixing oil and water,
he classical and literary elements have
always ovCrshGdowcd ard swallowed up
any technical or practical annex in every
mixed school or college that has cvcr
tried it; and SO it has been, and will con
tinuo to be- in this State. | defy "D. ;"
or any one else to rcfutc the assertion.
And now | make another, namely, tlnt
not five per cent. OF the graduates of the
literary colleges and universities ever
lhrm. ! have abundant proof il any one
ilsput.s The !act. The matter then re-
solves .;a ii into this shape: a COLLEGE
| when hopes CT intends to educate men
VINO Will return to the farm must do Two
| things First, make agriculture It's lead
ing feature and second, require manual
labor during the whole course of study.
Now, cd. was so rasl as to clai,a that
Vhc Solth Carolina College Is carrying
out the Federal law more fully than The
MISSISSIPPI College, because it has III Il
small way developed its mechanical an
ncN, and because, as he alleges, the Mis-
slsslppi CollcG" does not afford a "GbG-
raj education.
EEor% reader OF The News and Courier
~ iamli,nr with the clause OF the Act o.
iSo@, winch describes the kind Of college
intended 10 be established. 1t expressly
states mat lis leading object shall be to
'eIch Such branches OF learning as are
related to agriculture and tho mechanic
tfts, Nc. "Leadlng! leading. LEADING"
J write 1t III capitals SO ID. and all his
Dfothcr sophlsts can see 1T. When they
come 10 cohstrue that olt-rcpeated sen
IGnce they never see "lcadin8" at all.
lhey cannot attach any meaning to
| wv - "i'Ai Bi'\tNCil'H
heafts to the words, without cXcluCimg
classical studies, and Liberal, al
though these words are only an excrcs-
cehce, ana not essential TO understand
th9 sentence:
Ihen, again, they seize on the words
20 promote the education of the indus.
trial classes III tho several pursuits and
PROFESSIONS OF NE = several pursuits
ana professions. Here IS warrant enough
or teaching anything. But who is to be
taught? The sons OF "onco lordly plan
"rS! Lhe sons OF lawyers and rlch men,
Such as constitute the bulk OF the students
~ ~ inc oontn Carolina Coilege' on, no!
me Inc "ihduStrial classes, says the law
wen, VINO are the industrial classes III
1outn C"rollh"! ~. has ansWered tins
question ii loT mo. lie says I'VE arc an
tBficuiturHl people ana hkGiy TO remain
50 IN spito OF Dooms' ~c' Ihs Federal
money Was donated 70 establish col